FollowYourGov » open source http://followyourgov.com Social Media and New Technology for Government and Public Administrators Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:43:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Open Source Innovation http://followyourgov.com/2010/04/02/open-source-innovation/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/04/02/open-source-innovation/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:50:07 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=451 Stephen Goldsmith, who we recently highlighted, discusses “open sourcing innovation.”  He writes about increasing the number of governmental innovators, in a very interesting article.

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2010/04/02/open-source-innovation/feed/ 0 Drupal for Building Gov 2.0 Sites http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/22/drupal-for-building-gov-2-0-sites/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/22/drupal-for-building-gov-2-0-sites/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:38:03 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=410 Continue reading →]]> GovFresh has a great article on the usefulness of the open source Drupal content management system in creating transparency and government 2.0 websites.

Don’t forget to look at our Goverments Using Open Source CMS for many examples of sites built with Drupal (and other open source solutions).

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/22/drupal-for-building-gov-2-0-sites/feed/ 0 Open Source Critical to Open Government http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/19/open-source-critical-to-open-government/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/19/open-source-critical-to-open-government/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:05:35 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=403 The lead architect for Red Hat Government responds to criticism from folks who don’t believe open government and open source software are connected.

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2010/03/19/open-source-critical-to-open-government/feed/ 0 More Cloud and Open Source for Government http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/22/more-cloud-and-open-source-for-government/ http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/22/more-cloud-and-open-source-for-government/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:30:25 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=353 InformationWeek has a great article about the US government using more open source and putting more information in the cloud.

]]> http://followyourgov.com/2010/01/22/more-cloud-and-open-source-for-government/feed/ 0 White House Website Expansion http://followyourgov.com/2009/11/24/white-house-website-expansion/ http://followyourgov.com/2009/11/24/white-house-website-expansion/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:51:28 +0000 Chris http://followyourgov.com/?p=212 Continue reading →]]> In a follow up to the recent Drupal rollout at whitehouse.gov, the White House media team recently spoke with Drupal developers.  Whitehouse.gov is working to roll out custom news feeds, user authentication, and more tagged, searchable raw data.  They are also looking into releasing some of their custom code to the open source community.

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